Matriculate Trained Teachers, who make up 87% of school teachers in India, get Rs 775 in UP Rs 892 in Assam and Rs 1,507 per month in Punjab. Even in the most highly rated schools, the average salary is Rs. 7,225 p.m. Nearly 200,000 teachers in Bihar draw a salary less than that of a peon in the government. Teachers with post graduate degrees teaching primary to higher secondary levels, draw...
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SC notice to RIL over Surat land acquisition case
After seeking reply from Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd (RGTIL) and others on Monday, the Supreme Court on Thursday again issued notice to the firm, the ministry of petroleum and others on another batch of petitions filed by land owners from Surat seeking adequate compensation from the company for using their land for laying gas pipelines to transport natural gas from Krishna-Godavari basin to Gujarat. A Bench headed by...
More »Dalit girl’s gangrape has hung for 11 yrs on an MLA’s note by Parimal Dabhi, Hitarth Pandya
She was a minor; her alleged assaulter a man with clout. The police initially turned her away; while a decade later, her case is still on in courts. And while Ruchika Girhotra’s tragic story may have got the nation’s and government’s ear, no one remembers the then 13-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly gangraped on the night of the Dhuleti festival, a day after Holi, in a Vadodara village by...
More »SLP against land acquisition for Nano dismissed by J Venkatesan
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with a Gujarat High Court judgment dismissing a petition which challenged land acquisition by the State government for the Tata Motors’ Nano project at Surendranagar. Rejecting the public interest litigation petition filed by the NGO, Rashtriya Kisan Dal represented by H.K. Thaker, Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan asked him: “You don’t want industrialisation of Surendranagar? Gujarat is the second most industrialised State.”...
More »SC throws out Nano land plea by Samanwaya Rautray
The Supreme Court today dismissed a Gujarat farmer’s petition against allotment of fertile agricultural land in Sanand for Tata Motors’ Nano project. “You cannot complain that only barren land should be used for industry and not agricultural land, once the land has been taken over,” Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan said. The Narendra Modi government had allotted the 1,000 acres, about 30km from Ahmedabad, last year after Tata Motors withdrew from...
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